The Risk of Manipulating Your Child

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Maron: It seems so tricky, right? Because on the one hand insofar as your child actually cares about the thing and you want to satisfy their desires. On the other hand, you don't want to create a dynamic where they essentially have an incentive to manipulate you. How do you navigate that? "I personally find that when I get clear on these things for myself, then most of the problems tend to resolve themselves," she says.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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